A candle, taper or night-light made of wax.

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a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 16 Aug. 1654. [Doncaster] a large faire towne, famous for greate wax-lights and good stockings.

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a. 1715.  Burnet, Own Time, III. (1823), II. 154. There were many drops of white wax-lights on his breeches.

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1798.  Sophia Lee, Canterb. T., Young Lady’s T., II. 134. Shades over the wax-lights softened the glare.

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1828.  Scott, Jrnl., 12 April (1891), 572. Tom S. … said in a whisper, ‘I advise you to secure a wax-light to go to bed with,’ shewing him … a morsel which he had stolen from a sconce.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 535. Within the Abbey, nave, choir, and transept were in a blaze with innumerable waxlights.

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1864.  Kingsley, Roman & T., v. (1875), 129. The Emperor coming out to meet him with processions and wax-lights.

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1870.  Chamb. Jrnl., 16 April, 241/1. Visions of private sitting-rooms, wax-lights, bad wines,… at once rise before his experienced eyes.

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